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 (information storage and search system) Available information system and integrated database on the diversity of vertebrate animals of Russia. The integrated database includes species and subspecies of 295 freshwater fishes, 29 - amphibians, 84 - reptiles, 739 - birds and 310 - mammals.
International Symposium "Information Systems and Web-portals on Biodiversity of Species & Ecosystems"
Dear colleagues!We invite you to take part in the International Symposium 'Information Systems and WEB-portals on Biodiversity of Species & Ecosystems' which will be held in Borok, Yaroslavl province, Russia, November 28th to 1st December, 2006. The previous Symposium was held in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science (1-4 December 2003). It attracted attention of a large number of specialists both from Russia and foreign countries. Nearly 200 scientists participated in the previous Symposium. In recent years, especially after the publication of the materials of the previous Symposium (2003), many requests for "IT -2006" organization have been received. More detailed information about the Symposium held in 2003 is presented at the URL address: http://www.zin.ru/conferences/isbse/index.html The next symposium is suggested to include the discussion of theoretical and practical issues, connected with the most actual problem of automation of scientific studies in the field of biodiversity. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMTopic areas include:
Major control periodsRegistration of applications - until May 1, 2006 Acceptance of presentations materials - until September 1, 2006 Acceptance of registration fees - until October 1, 2006 General InformationThe organizing committee claims the choice of the reports for their presentation in the Symposium. Short versions of the reports will have been published before the Symposium starts to work. Forms of presentations and time-limit:
Language: Russian or English (preferably) Registration fee Foreign participants of the conference need to pay the sum equal to 30 EURO (in rubles) at conference registration. Registration fee is supposed for the payment of organization services and publication of the materials. Materials Materials of the presentation must contain not more than 1500 (no more than 3 pages) words of the text and references, types through 1 interval in Times New Roman, font 12. Parameters of the page: format - А4, all margins - 2 cm. Indention - 1 cm. Besides the printed version on the paper, it is necessary to send the electronic variant of the material in the MS Word 6.0/95/97/2000/2003 format or typed in any other editor and saved in the RTF format. Short version of materials should be sent until September 1st, 2006 in electronic form to the addresses: BOROK-IT@sevin.ru and Borok-IT@ibiw.yaroslavl.ru. Example of the text layout of the article:MINTER D. W.1, HAYEVA V. P.2, TYKHONENKO Yu. Ya.2 & THOMAS A.H.3 Electronic distribution maps of Ukrainian fungi and plants The objective of this project, funded by the UK Royal Society, is to make a CD ROM of electronic distribution maps of Ukrainian fungi and plants. The source of information is an enlarged and enhanced version of the database used for "Fungi of Ukraine" (a preliminary national checklist produced through an earlier project funded by the UK Darwin Initiative). That database currently contains over 84000 observations in Ukraine of living organisms, mostly fungi. In almost all of these observations the oblast (country) of origin is identifiable, and for the half of then has been possible to allocate latitude and longitude co-ordinates of sufficient accuracy for mapping. Maps have been prepared using national and oblast boundary data derived from Ukraine, with GIS software provided by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology. When complete, these maps will show the distribution (as currently known to the database) for over 5000 species of fungi, and their over 1700 species of associated with them plants. By highlighting the species and areas studied insufficiently, the work is a major step towards a rational conservation strategy for Ukrainian fungi.- 1 CABI Bioscience, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, TW20 9TY, UK, E-mail d.minter@cabi.org; 2 M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Tereshchenkivs'ka 2, MSP-1, Kiev, 252601, Ukraine; 3 Bangor Research Unit, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, University of Wales Bangor, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UP, UK. Contacts for additional informatiom (Moscow): Contacts for additional informatiom (Borok): Organizing CommitteeChairman: Vice-Chairmen: Deputy Chairmen: Responsible for organization of Symposium Orgcommittee members:
Welcome to IT Symposium in BOROK,
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